Mahatma Letter to Leadbeater - LMW 1 No. 50

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People involved
Written by:	Koot Hoomi
Received by:	Charles Webster Leadbeater
Sent via:	post
Dates
Written on:	unknown
Received on:	31 October 1884, at midday
Other dates:	unknown
Places
Sent from:	Kensington post office
Received at:	London
Via:	unknown

This letter is Letter No. 50 in Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, First Series. Mahatma Koot Hoomi gives reassurance to Charles Webster Leadbeater.

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Page 1 transcription, image, and notes

Take courage. I am pleased with you. Keep your own counsel, and believe in your better intuitions. The little man has failed and will reap his reward. Silence meanwhile.

K.H.

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NOTES:

• the little man was the spiritual name of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky.

Context and background

Mr. Jinarajadasa provided these notes about this letter:

Transcribed from the original at Adyar. This occurs written across a folded letter written by H.P.B. at Elberfeld, 23 June 1886, to C.W. Leadbeater then in Ceylon. The Master’s message was precipitated in transit. The letter of H.P.B. to Mr Leadbeater was about an Indian chela of the Master, S. Krishnamachri, who was in Germany with her, but who turned against her. ‘The little man has failed’ refers to this individual, who thus ‘dropped out’. I have given a reproduction of H.P.B.’s letter and of the Master’s message to Mr Leadbeater precipitated in blue across it in my book, The K.H. Letters to C. W. Leadbeater.

Physical description of letter

The original letter is preserved at the Adyar headquarters of the Theosophical Society.

Publication history

This letter was published in 1919 as Letter 37 in the first edition of Letters from the Masters of the Wisdom, 1881-1888, later known as the First Series.